Gaseous zirconium oxides

Ackermann RJ, Rauh EG, Alexander CA (1975) The thermodynamic properties of gaseous zirconium oxide. High Temp Sci 7 304... 

All of the members of the final review team contributed, if not text, then comments to all of the chapters of the book. Their primary responsibilities for the different sections/chapters were divided as follows. Paul Brown prepared the introduction, and the sections on elemental zirconium, the zirconyl ion, the gaseous zirconium oxides, zirconium hydride, the halogen compounds and complexes, the chalcogen compounds and complexes, the Group 15 compounds and complexes, zirconium carbides and silicates. He was assisted by Christian Ekberg in the interpretation of aqueous zirconium complexes in these sections. Some initial work was done by Ken Jackson on the zirconium sulphate, nitrate and phosphate compounds and complexes. Bernd Grambow was responsible for the drafting of the sections on zirconium hydrolysis, the ion and the section on crystalline and amorphous zirconium oxides. Enzo Curti drafted the section on the zirconium carbonates. 

Liquid and gaseous oxygen are produced in very large quantities, mainly by fractional distillation of liquid air. The annual production is about 100 million tonnes. New methods are being developed. If air is forced through a ceramic based on zirconium oxide, the oxygen preferentially passes through. 

The chemical identities of the fission products determine their subsequent redistribution, those elements which are in the gaseous state at the temperature of the operation migrating to the cooler exterior of the fuel rods, and die less voltile elements undergoing incorporation in the fuel rod in solid solution. Thus caesium and iodine migrate to the gas fill which sunounds the fuel rod, and elements such as the rare earths and zirconium are accommodated in solid solution in UO2 without significant migration along the fuel rod radius. Strontium and barium oxidize to form separate islands which can be seen under the microscope. 

Most borides are chemically inert in bulk form, which has led to industrial applications as engineering materials, principally at high temperature. The transition metal borides display a considerable resistance to oxidation in air. A few examples of applications are given here. Titanium and zirconium diborides, alone or in admixture with chromium diboride, can endure temperatures of 1500 to 1700 K without extensive attack. In this case, a surface layer of the parent oxides is formed at a relatively low temperature, which prevents further oxidation up to temperatures where the volatility of boron oxide becomes appreciable. In other cases the oxidation is retarded by the formation of some other type of protective layer, for instance, a chromium borate. This behavior is favorable and in contrast to that of the refractory carbides and nitrides, which form gaseous products (carbon oxides and nitrogen) in air at high temperatures. Boron carbide is less resistant to oxidation than the metallic borides. 

The separation of ammonia from interfering compounds was also based on gaseous diffusion of ammonia from an alkaline medium and absorption by an acidic medium. Walker and Shipman described the isolation of ammonia by the use of a zirconium phosphate cation exchanger. The adsorbed ammonia was displaced from the column by 1.24 M cesium chloride, then oxidized by hypochlorite, reacted with phenol to form a phenol-indophenol complex which was measured at 395 or 625 nm, depending on the concentration range. 

Belov, A. N., Semenov, G. A., Mass-spectrometric determination of the temperature dependence of the pressure of gaseous oxides over thorium and zirconium dioxides, Russ. J. Inorg. Chem., 53, (1979), 1752-1755. Cited on pages 120, 565. 

Havens, F. S. and Way, A. F. Separation of Iran from Chromium, Zirconium and Beryllium by the Action of Gaseous Hydrochloric Acid on the Oxides. 

Boric acid Copper oxide (ic) Lithium chloride Lithium fluoride Potassium tetraborate Tributyl borate Zirconium potassium hexafluoride welding flux, gaseous Trimethyl borate welding fluxes, special Zirconium welding gas Oxygen... 

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